Emily Browning Quotes
With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.
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I love good film, whether it's an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren't necessarily eccentric ones but they're the more specific ones.
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The oddest things happen to me. It goes in seasons. Nothing will happen for a long time, and I miss it, and I remember how these strange coincidences used to happen to me and how amazing it was, how it made me want to believe in something. A year will go by, and then a slew of them will come along, like buses, one after another.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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With young people, there's often that carelessness, allowing yourself to get into danger - recklessness, I suppose.
